S 457
Rhyming English version of S 456.
Archive: Ripon
MSS: 1. PRO DL 41/6/1 (s. xiii; Fowler 1881 facing p. 90)
2. Bodleian, Dodsworth 160, 250r (s. xvii)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 172-3; K 360; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 133 (no. 5); Thorpe, pp. 182-3; Fowler 1881, pp. 90-3; B 647 ex Mon. Angl.; B 859 ex MS 1; Earle, pp. 438-9; Witty 1921, p. 39.
Comments: Keynes 1986, p. 90, spurious; Faith 1997, p. 38.
Wyt all that es and es gan
Þat ik king Adelstan
As gyven als frelich as I may
And to þe capitell of seint Wilfrai,
Of my free devotion
Þair pees at Rippon
On ilke side þe kyrke a mile,
For all ill deedes and ilke agyle,
And within þair kirke yate
At þe stan þat Grithstole hate.
Within þe kirke dore and þe quare
Þair have pees for les and mare.
Ilkan of þis stedes sal have pees
Of frodmortell and il deedes
Þat þair don is, tol [and] tem,
With iren and with water deme
And þat þe land of seint Wilfrai
Of alkyn geld fre sal be ay.
At na nan at langes me to
In þair Herpsac sal have at do;
And for ik will at ya be save
I will at þai alkyn freedom have;
And in al thinges be als free
As hert may thynke or eygh may se
At te power of a kynge
Masts make free any thynge.
And my seale have I sett þerto
For I will at na man it undo.